Why are there so many bio musicals and stupid musicals next season!- Page 2

[smidge]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 12:54pm

I'm sort of hoping for a lousy season because I am just out of damn money!

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 1:30pm

smidge said: "I'm sort of hoping for a lousy season because I am just out of damn money!

 

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I would say the same thing, but I know I'll just splurge on Anastasia if that happens 

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 1:37pm

This thread is silly as I'm imagining most of the people here whining haven't seen these shows, if that's even been possible. Who cares as long as it's good?

Also people, there's no point in engaging with After Eight as if you're going to change someone's mind. Do whatever you want, but it's a waste of time. 

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 1:43pm

wonderfulwizard11 said: "This thread is silly as I'm imagining most of the people here whining haven't seen these shows, if that's even been possible. Who cares as long as it's good?

Also people, there's no point in engaging with After Eight as if you're going to change someone's mind. Do whatever you want, but it's a waste of time. 

 

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This was the first time I've ever engaged with After Eight. And, given their response, it will be the last. Although I think my point was a fair one.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 1:43pm

This is the funniest thread in a long time!

After the wonderful seasons with Fun Home,Hamilton, Come From Away, Comet 1812. Why are we getting all these stupid non great musical ideas.

It's strictly personal.  The producers have reviewed your personal tastes, determined precisely what is stupid non great, and colluded to only produce shows that you will dismiss based on nothing other than the concept alone.  They're sending you a message.

Because there are so many stupid people who will pay to see them.

And stupider people make statements like that.

There is a difference between the type of musicals you're talking about, the kind that are smart but still entertain and the egg head pretentious elitist musicals that have zero melodies.

Which ones do you believe have zero melodies?

It's "safer" to create a show with a well known title and songs people know from the radio.

You bet!  Lennon, Baby It's You, Good Vibrations, Holler if You Hear Me, The Little Mermaid and Tarzan were totally safe guaranteed home runs!

It's another example of the dumbing down of America. The Disneyland that is now known as Times Square is so depressing, but sadly, this is the time we live in.

Yes...the cynical catchphrase is indisputable proof that had Spring Awakening, The Light in the Piazza, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Urinetown, Next to Normal, Memphis, Book of Mormon, Matilda, Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, The Drowsy Chaperone, Avenue Q, Rent, In the Heights, Fun Home, Hamilton, Great Comet, Come From Away, War Paint and Dear Evan Hansen ever been produced on Broadway, they would be ignored by the public and close immediately.  Sadly, Broadway has never seen the likes of any of those musicals because of [cynical catchphrase] and nobody will ever see those shows.  We can only imagine what could have been.

Oops.  Never mind.  It was a typo.  It's not the "time we live in".  It's the "alternate universe you live in".

Because Broadway is dead.

HAHAHAHA.  Wait...you're joking, right?

FYI - Responding to After Hate is as pointless trying to reason with Ann Coulter on...well, anything.  You'll just get the continued peddling of a provocative persona.

[After Eight]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 1:43pm

"Also people, there's no point in engaging with After Eight as if you're going to change someone's mind."

 

Uh, does engaging with anyone here ever change your mind?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 2:09pm

Why do so many of you not set certain users to ignore?

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 2:18pm

 

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 2:24pm

I really wish that Little Dancer would transfer for this season.  I think that it would do really well.

[hork]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 8:22pm

After Eight said: "I love the theatre, but only if it's something that's simple and old-fashioned, and offers nothing challenging or innovative or thought-provoking or emotionally complex."

Fixed.

 

Updated On: 6/7/17 at 08:22 PM

[Owen22]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 9:21pm

After all this time I've come to the conclusion After Eight is performance art.

[tomwsjr]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 9:31pm

[tomwsjr]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 9:33pm

It's the Trump effect, America is being dumbed down, Broadway follows.  

[After Eight]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 9:44pm

Hork,

Don't attribute made-up quotes to people.

[Cfried]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 9:57pm

icecreambenjamin said: "I really wish that Little Dancer would transfer for this season.  I think that it would do really well."

YES. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.

[CallMeAl2]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 10:06pm

Look, let's not get greedy. This was an extraordinary season. And this year's four nominated musicals will certainly still be running this time next year. So the new shows will just be added in to this year's extraordinary mix. 

But I get the concern. Of the announced shows, only two have an original score. And Spongebob is a compilation score from different pop songwriters - so there is limited opportunity to make changes to fit the characters and scenes. But it's very early. Odds are something that looks like a sure thing right now will drop out and some shows that weren't on our radar will move in to place.

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 10:14pm

In a perfect world we would see a season that includes The Band's Visit, Hadestown, Little Dancer, and maybe even Sondheim's new musical, but unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the direction that we're going in.  I also heard that William Finn's show, The Royal Family of Broadway, had a reading this year (I believe that Carolee Carmello was involved), but I don't know how true that is.  Basically, I'm hopeful that we will continue to see new, good musicals opening up on Broadway just like this wonderful season that we have right now.  I'm really hoping that these shows will sweep in and save us "elitists" from these tourist trap pieces of "theatre." 

[Oak2]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 10:34pm

That's your perception of a perfect world, maybe, and you are welcome to it. I can't entirely agree though, and not just due to difference in taste/preference. To me (and of course I am in no way here believing that my opinion on this is any kind of authority), a perfect world's Broadway is one with an exactly even balance of high-brow and low-brow theatre, with at least one show appealing to any possible set of interests or tastes. That way nobody would have any cause to complain and would have at least one show they could truly enjoy. I personally enjoy the "tourist traps" and don't believe anything needs "saving" from them, But then again, I also believe that no show is truly, entirely awful - if even one person enjoys it, then its existence is worthwhile. Obviously this isn't realistic due to other factors such as financial requirements, but it's why even when I personally dislike a show, I still would never argue that it doesn't deserve to be on Broadway, and I will be happy that it finds its audience. Every show deserves to exist and to find its audience and success, in my mind at least.

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 10:43pm

^Ok then, go watch your crappy Spongebob musical.  I would just like to see more quality musicals on Broadway like this season.

Updated On: 6/7/17 at 10:43 PM

[Oak2]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 10:47pm

It's only crappy in the perception of people whose tastes, from what I have seen, run counter to mine, which means that to me it most likely will not be crappy at all. And I certainly hope I will enjoy it! May you enjoy your own preferred works as well. 

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 10:50pm

Yes, go see SpongeBob if that makes you happy, but I like my theatre with substance and I am allowed to hope for some quality, new musicals to move to broadway.

[CallMeAl2]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 10:58pm

Oak2 said: "...To me ... a perfect world's Broadway is one with an exactly even balance of high-brow and low-brow theatre, with at least one show appealing to any possible set of interests or tastes. That way nobody would have any cause to complain and would have at least one show they could truly enjoy. ..."

I pretty much agree with everything you say and I am happy to see all these shows on Broadway. I would only add that we need more than one aimed at different audiences because odds are, any given show is going to fall short. This year we were supposed to have both Holiday Inn and Singing in the Rain in the fall, bit Singing fell out and Holiday Inn was kind of a lot of empty calories. Fortunately, Dolly came in to take up the slack for the traditional song & dance crowd. So I wouldn't want to have to pin my hopes for the season on a single production - no matter where my taste may lie.

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 11:02pm

icecreambenjamin, why are you being so hostile here? Let people enjoy their own things.

[Oak2]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 11:03pm

Of course you can hope for more works that you like. I enjoy many works with substance as well. I just also am able to appreciate more commercial works as well, which overall is a win since that means more works I enjoy compared to many. What I do reject is anyone who thinks that their preference and taste somehow makes them superior to me or smarter.

My statements were, to be fair, less directed specifically at you,  but moreso at the sentiments of the original poster and others who imply that musicals like Spongebob shouldn't exist in the first place and that them being on Broadway is some kind of grand offense, which is what irks me, and I'm sorry if I was unclear in that and that it sounded more like I was specifically targeting your hopes (other than possibly misconstruing your hope for more shows like that existing into also including a hope that the other shows like Margaritaville and Spongebob not exist at all). 

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 6/7/17 at 11:12pm

BroadwayConcierge said: "icecreambenjamin, why are you being so hostile here? Let people enjoy their own things.

 

I'm not being hostile at all.  If people want to go see SpongeBob, that's fine.  I'm just saying that we're really lacking new musicals that aren't based on things like SpongeBob or Cher or Jimmy Buffet.  After this season, I thought that there would be a greater demand for innovative and artistic works.  It just makes everything more interesting.